A worker at an Anheuser-Busch brewery pushes fabled beechwood chips into a huge, stainless steel beer ageing tank. The company is the only U.S. brewer to age its beers on beechwood chips.
"Pickets appeared at the Anheuser-Busch brewery yesterday for the first time since the work stoppage there started Oct. 1. Members of Local 187 of the CIO Beer Bottlers Union are shown before the bottling plant. The company garage and three outside garages housing brewery trucks were also picketed, stopping the delivery of beer."
"August A. Busch Jr., president of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., helped notify pickets at the brewery that a settlement of the company's dispute with the Brewery Workers had been reached at 2:35 a.m. yesterday. From left, Eberhard Anheuser, chairman of the board of the brewery; R. W. Upshaw, vice president; Robert F. Lewis, president of the Joint Local Executive Board of the Brewery Workers, and Busch
"Pickets from the Newark, N. J. local of the CIO Brewery Workers Union set up a picket line yesterday at the Anheuser-Busch brewery here, but most workers crossed the line and production was not halted. The union is seeking a contract at the Anheuser-Busch Newark plant."
"Picketing by the CIO Beer Bottlers Union Local 187 was extended yesterday to the entire plant of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., forcing the complete shutdown of production. Pickets shown here are in front of the corn products plant and lager beer cellars near Ninth and Pestalozzi streets. The Anheuser-Busch shutdown was followed by a production stoppage at the Hyde Park Brewwery, where picket lines were
"Picket lines were set up at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery yesterday by the AFL International Association of Machinists, District 9, after 220 machinists walked out in a dispute over a new contract. The company charged the machinists demanded a contract clause that would result in a jurisdictional dispute. The union charged the management with refusal to negotiate." - Looking north on Broadway from Arsenal.
Above, rolling out the barrels at the Griesedieck Brothers Brewery, 1920 Shenandoah ave., was resumed yesterday as picket lines were withdrawn by the AFL Teammasters Local 688, which had sought to organize office workers.
Marty Gaubatz, who has been with Stag for 44 years, celebrates in Bernie and Gene's Tavern in Belleville. He says he's looking forward to seeing a lot of his old buddies again.